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Offline Numsgil

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« on: December 21, 2006, 03:24:38 AM »
Black Shoals is a very interesting use of artificial life.  Its agents are actually pretty similar to our bots, and feed from sources that grow or shrink based on real time stock market data.

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« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2006, 04:24:13 AM »
Does sound very famaliar.

Wish they'd release the code

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« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2006, 01:35:24 PM »
They could at least have a java sim to look at. Only pictures.    The idea is pretty cool though.
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« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2006, 11:01:50 PM »
I think this falls mostly into the Evolutionary art side of alife.  So it was a sort of performance art.  Like mime XD